Vehicle-pole tip.



.'-No. 725,729. v v PATENTED 21v, 1903.

E. L. LEWIS & F. LUGKEY.

VEHICLE POLE TIP. A PPLIdATION FILED rm. e, 1903.

no MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERASTUS L. LEWIS AND FRANK LUOKEY, OF MARSHALL, MICHIGAN, AS-

SIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT E. FISHER AND JAMES FISHER, OF

MARSHALL, MICHIGAN.

VEHICLE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,729, dated April- 21, Application filed February 6, 19Q3. Serial No. 142.217. (NomodeL) To (LZZ whom, it may concern: the two coinplemental sections forming the Beitknown that we,ERAsTUs L. LEWIs and pole-tip, each of said sections being recessed FRANK LUCKEY,citizens of the United States, out, as at B, for the reception of the end of a residingat Marshall, in the county ofOalhoun pole,while longitudinally-projecting portions and State of Michigamhave invented certain O extend above and below the pole and are 55 new and useful Improvements in Vehicleadapted to be fastened thereto by bolts or Pole Tips; and we do declare the following to other suitable fastening means. Each of the be a full, clear, and exact description of the sections of the pole-tip has formed therein a invention, such as willeuable others skilled in hook D for the reception of the ring of the re the art to which it appertains to make and use neck-yoke, and the inner face of each section 60 the same, reference being had to the accompais provided with a circular segment-groove E. nying drawings,and to the letters of reference A shoulder K is formed on the inner face of marked thereon, which form a part of this each tongue-section, adapted to form a stop specification. to limit the rearward throw of the tongue F This invention relates to new and usefulimin a manner as will be presently described. 65

proveinents in safety attachments for tongues One end of said circular groove terminates in of vehicles provided for-the purpose of hold: a shoulder which is adapted to limit the throw ing the neck-yoke to the end of the pole in of the tongue in the opposite direction. Each case the neck-yoke should accidentally beinner face of the tongue-sections is similarly 20 come detached from the harness; and it congrooved and has similar shoulders K, and 70 sists in the provision of an integral hook said tongue F, which is preferably semicirformed on the cap of the tongue and provided. cular, has a weighted portion N formed inwith a gravity-tongue which is made indetegral therewith, the shank portion of said pendent of the cap and hooked and adapted weighted part intermediate the latter and the to work in grooved sections of the cap and ring being somewhat contractedandgrooved, 75 weighted at one end, so as to automatically as at N, for the purpose of allowing the two close over the opening in the hook. tip-sections to come close together, a flanged The invention consists, further, in various portion of the weighted part overlapping each details of construction and arrangements of tip-section when the sections are placed toparts,which willbehereinafterfullydescribed gether, and the outer circumference of the So and then specifically defined in the appended weighted part is preferably milled, as at L, claims. for the purposeof throwing the tongue back Ourinveution is'clearly illustratedin the acin said segment-grooves. companying drawings, which, with the letters A weighted part of the tongue is so posiof reference marked thereon, form a part of tioned that it will fall by gravity into aclosed 85 this application, and in which drawings simiposition, thus normally holding the ring of lar letters of reference indicate like parts in the neck-yoke in the hooked part of the tip, the several drawings, in which and when it is desired to release the neck- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our poleyoke the tongue may be thrown back and the 40 tip, showing our-improved means for holding neck-yoke easily removed, the shank portion 0 the ring of the neck-yoke therein. Fig. 2 is of the weighted part of the tongue coming in a View showing in side elevation the inner contact with the weighted portions K to limit faces of the sections which make up the polethe rearward throw of the tongue. tip, one of said sections showing in the groove Having th us fully described our invention,

therein the gravity-tongue. Fig. 3 is a crosswhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by 5 sectional view through the tip with the sec- Letters Patent, is

tions secured together, and Fig. I is an en- 1. A safety-tip for vehicle-poles, made up larged detail view of the gravity-tongue. of two complemental sections, each of which Reference now being bad to the details of has a hooked portion and a curved segmentthe drawings by letter, A and A designate groove formed in the inner face of the section, two shoulders, one at each end of said groove, a semicircular tongue mounted in said groove and having an integral weighted portion with milled edge, the shank portion of said milled part being grooved and adapted to receive the marginal edges of the tipsections, said weighted portion adapted to project outside thetvvo tip-sections when the latter are secured together, as set forth.

2. A pole-tip made up of two sections, the inner face of each section having a hooked portion and a curved segment-groove, a shoulder K on the inner face of each section, a semicircular ring forming a tongue mounted in said grooves, an integral weighted part to said tongue and having a contracted con- ERASTUS L. LEWIS. FRANK LUCKEY.

Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN ARNDTS, LOUIE ARNDTS. 

